+cvga Posted September 27, 2009 Author Share Posted September 27, 2009 Atari 2600 Kaboom! for 111 minutes You have logged exactly 6,666 minutes on Kaboom! for the Top Ten thread. You have logged exactly 6,667 total minutes for the thread. Can you name the other game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 (edited) Here are the final entries for the week: Arcade Asteroids 50 mins Star Castle 35 mins Space Fury 10 mins Rip-Off 13 mins Satan's Hollow 5 mins Galaxian Part X 8 mins Space Invaders 10 mins Millipede 5 mins Lock N Chase 3 mins Mr. Do! 3 mins Ms. Pac-Man 15 mins Bomb Bee 3 mins BerZerk 3 mins Arkanoid 3 mins Uniwar S 2 mins Asteroids Deluxe 7 mins Sinistar 20 mins Eagle 5 mins Galaxian 8 mins Thief 3 mins Edited September 28, 2009 by rmaerz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninermaniac Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Yesterday I played Harem and Stacker for about 30 minutes. I'll get back into it soon I hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted September 28, 2009 Author Share Posted September 28, 2009 Another 160 minutes of Takin' It to the Hoop (Turbo Grafx). I won the tourney and am probably done with this game for a long time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Atari 2600 Kaboom! for 111 minutes You have logged exactly 6,666 minutes on Kaboom! for the Top Ten thread. You have logged exactly 6,667 total minutes for the thread. Can you name the other game? Night Driver Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disjaukifa Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Atari 2600 Q*Bert - 15 minutes Galaxian - 10 minutes -Disjaukifa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 No Escape! (2600) - 15 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted September 29, 2009 Author Share Posted September 29, 2009 Atari 2600 Kaboom! for 111 minutes You have logged exactly 6,666 minutes on Kaboom! for the Top Ten thread. You have logged exactly 6,667 total minutes for the thread. Can you name the other game? Night Driver Correct! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted September 29, 2009 Author Share Posted September 29, 2009 The Turbo Grafx comes on strong in Week 39 (Season 2). Here's the Week #39 Top Ten... 1. Takin' It to the Hoop (Turbo Grafx) 280 minutes 2. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) 111 3. Frogger (Atari 2600) 90 4. Splash Lake (Turbo Grafx) 85 5. Asteroids (Arcade) 75 5. Super Star Soldier (Turbo Grafx) 75 7. Star Wars - The Arcade Game (Atari 2600) 50 7. Final Lap Twin (Turbo Grafx) 50 9. Star Trek - S.O.S. (Atari 2600) 45 10. Amidar (Atari 2600) 40 10. Galaxian (Atari 2600) 40 10. Star Castle (Arcade) 40 Total Games = 79 Total Minutes = 1,794 Two more weeks until the celebratory one year anniversary of the Top Ten! Keep posting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted September 29, 2009 Author Share Posted September 29, 2009 Since we're 3/4 of the way through 2009 (39 of 52 weeks), I thought you might enjoy seeing the Top 50 so far for this year... 1. Galaxian (Atari 2600) 11,254 minutes [thanks to Homer's successful historic conquest to capture the World record] 2. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) 6,622 minutes [Atarian7 plays this game almost exclusively - lots of others chip in] 3. Park Patrol (Commodore) 2,736 minutes [Kurt Woloch single-handedly (and a thumb) vaults this to #3 so far this year] 4. Adventure (Atari 2600) 2,435 minutes (a classic with lots of players) 5. Mouse Trap (Colecovision) 1,635 minutes (rmaerz couldn't get this out of his Colecovision) 6. Pepper II (Colecovision) 1,350 minutes (except to play this game) 7. Galaga (Arcade) 1,250 minutes (top Arcade game of the year) 8. Jr. Pac-man (Atari 7800) 1,072 minutes (what a conversion!!) 9. Buck Rogers - Planet of Zoom (Atari 2600) 876 minutes (lots of playing time during it's week in the HSC) 10. Midnight Magic (Atari 2600) 863 minutes (where have you gone Midnight Magicman?) 11. MisAdventure Revised (Atari 2600) 12. Medieval Mayhem (Atari 2600) 13. Pac-man Plus (Colecovision) 14. Demon Attack (Atari 2600) 15. Ram It (Atari 2600) 16. Jack and the Beanstalk (Atari 2600) 17. Toyshop Trouble (Atari 2600) 18. Millipede (Atari 2600) 19. Pac-man Arcade (Atari 2600) 20. Go Fish (Atari 2600) 21. Ms. Pac-man (Arcade) 22. Missile Command (Atari 2600) 23. Reindeer Rescue (Atari 2600) 24. Space Invaders (Atari 2600) 25. Ms. Pac-man (Atari 2600) 26. Asteroids (Atari 2600) 27. Asteroids Deluxe (Atari 7800) 28. Galaga (Atari 7800) 29. Galaxian (Colecovision) 30. Berzerk (Atari 2600) 31. INV+ (Atari 2600) 32. Jr. Pac-man (Atari 2600) 33. Galaxian Arcade (Atari 2600) 34. Cabbage Patch Kids - Adventure in the Park (Atari 2600) 35. Dragster (Atari 2600) 36. Doris (Atari 2600) 37. Boxing (Atari 2600) 38. E.T. (Atari 2600) 39. Asteroids (Atari 7800) 40. Q*bert (Atari 2600) 41. Debro Pac-man (Atari 2600) 42. Jr. Pac-man (Arcade) 43. Pac-man (Atari 2600) 44. Pitfall (Atari 2600) 45. Yars' Revenge (Atari 2600) 46. H.E.R.O. (Atari 2600) 47. KO Cruiser (Atari 2600) 48. Dumbo's Flying Circus (Atari 2600) 49. Donkey Kong (Atari 2600) 50. Defender (Colecovision) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 5. Mouse Trap (Colecovision) 1,635 minutes (rmaerz couldn't get this out of his Colecovision) 6. Pepper II (Colecovision) 1,350 minutes (except to play this game) You know what? Since achieving the #2 position on the TG scoreboard for Mouse Trap Game #1, I find it difficult to play this game because I know that I can crush the #1 record. Therefore, playing the game without attempting to break the record is fruitless... Pepper II I have no problems playing over and over again. However, since I have it loaded on one of the arcade cabinets I find no reason to play the ColecoVision version anymore (along with other games). Unfortunately for the home console games, if I have access to the arcade ROM then it trumps the console port version. The only port that comes to mind that is better than the arcade version is Jr. Pac-Man for the 7800. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Which ones out of the top 50 are home brews? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted October 2, 2009 Author Share Posted October 2, 2009 8. Jr. Pac-man (Atari 7800) 1,072 minutes (what a conversion!!) 11. MisAdventure Revised (Atari 2600) 12. Medieval Mayhem (Atari 2600) 13. Pac-man Plus (Colecovision) 16. Jack and the Beanstalk (Atari 2600) 17. Toyshop Trouble (Atari 2600) 19. Pac-man Arcade (Atari 2600) 20. Go Fish (Atari 2600) 23. Reindeer Rescue (Atari 2600) 27. Asteroids Deluxe (Atari 7800) 31. INV+ (Atari 2600) 33. Galaxian Arcade (Atari 2600) 34. Cabbage Patch Kids - Adventure in the Park (Atari 2600) 36. Doris (Atari 2600) 41. Debro Pac-man (Atari 2600) 47. KO Cruiser (Atari 2600) 48. Dumbo's Flying Circus (Atari 2600) I believe all of these are homebrews, protos, or after-market releases. Is anyone playing games this week? Looks like whatever I decide to play this weekend will be the Top Tep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Is anyone playing games this week? Looks like whatever I decide to play this weekend will be the Top Tep I've been playing very little...we've been working on the basement in preparation for Retrocade III Saturday night. There'll be a crap load of gaming going on then, especially since we have the Indy 500 tournament and a lot of Galaga trash talkers showing up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted October 2, 2009 Share Posted October 2, 2009 Stay Frosty (2600) - 30 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted October 3, 2009 Share Posted October 3, 2009 atari 2600 Kaboom! for 93 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disjaukifa Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Atari 2600 Pitfall 180 minutes (My wife and I took turns trying to beat it the last two night . . . we hate alligators) -DIsjaukifa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Arcade Donkey Kong 7 mins Rip-Off 3 mins Pac-Man Plus 9 mins Millipede 5 mins Amidar 3 mins Asteroids 15 mins BerZerk 5 mins BurgerTime 5 mins Mr. Do! 8 mins Star Castle 7 mins Sinistar 15 mins Asteroids Deluxe 5 mins Eagle 3 mins Moon Cresta 5 mins Galaga 10 mins Galaxian Part X 5 mins Space Invaders 3 mins Ms. Pac-Man 5 mins Phoenix 5 mins Lunar Rescue 25 mins Bomb Bee 5 mins Commodore 64 Moon Patrol 5 mins BattleZone 3 mins Atari 2600 Indy 500 10 mins Juno First 30 mins Defender Arcade 5 mins Dragster 5 mins Fishing Derby 3 mins Freeway 2 mins Atari 7800 Mario Bros. 10 mins Dark Chambers 5 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cebus Capucinis Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 I logged about 175 minutes of No Escape for the HSC last week. Yesterday I played: 50 minutes Missile Command 30 minutes Ms. Pac Man 15 minutes Pac Man 40 minutes Moon Patrol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 (edited) OK, here are my times for this week: The classic game: Crystals of Zong (C-64): 28 minutes in 2 sessions The non-classic games (irrelevant for the Top 10): Crazy Taxi: 368 minutes in 5 sessions Restaurant Simulation: 38 minutes in 2 sessions Busy Restaurant: 27 minutes in 2 sessions As you may have noticed, I didn't play many classic games again this week. I suppose my attention has somewhat shifted away from those. Keep in mind that the original timespan I massively played the Atari 2600 games was only one year (from January through December 1984). Now I've relatively intensively played them for over 2 more years. Having the ability to try out all the games that have been released for that system somewhat lengthens the usable timespan for Atari 2600 games for me, but not indefinitely... I feel I'm getting tired of those retro games, at least for now. Similar thing for the other consoles, and basically some games are only clones of each other or versions on other systems, where I always preferred to play the original arcade version, only couldn't afford it back then (or the original machines weren't even put up anymore, so I had to do with an Atari 2600, TI-99 or C-64 version). But you may have noticed from the modern games I'm playing now that they still are the basic type of games that are relatively fast to play (OK, some games on "Crazy Taxi" now already take 32-34 minutes, but that's about it). There's not that much of a leap upwards from the classic "Pole position" to "Crazy Taxi". OK, of course the graphics are MUCH better, but all in all it's still the concept of playing against a time limit and getting extra time once you reach some pre-defined goal (in this case, each time you pick up a new customer). And if you don't reach any goal, time runs out pretty quickly... you only have 70 seconds under arcade rules if you don't pick up any customers. Edited October 4, 2009 by Kurt_Woloch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 Stay frosty (2600) - 10 minutes Reindeer Rescue (2600) - 5 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfoMan Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 I just played Millipede for 30 min. with my sons using Atari800Win Plus. We got a high score of 108500. (And I now have a sore hand from holding down the fire button.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickeycolumbus Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 Telepathy (2600) - 10 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Arcade Lunar Rescue 2 mins Pepper II 5 mins Asteroids 20 mins Asteroids Deluxe 5 mins Venture 2 mins Juno First 45 mins Crystal Castles 2 mins Pac-Man Plus 5 mins Galaga 2 mins Astro Fighter 3 mins Lock N Chase 2 mins Jr. Pac-Man 2 mins Vectrex Minestorm 3 mins Rip-Off 2 mins 2600 Juno First 5 mins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cvga Posted October 6, 2009 Author Share Posted October 6, 2009 Here is the Week 40 Top Ten. A light week of gaming as we didn't quite reach 1,000 total minutes this week. I'm assuming everyone is gearing up for a huge week this week to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of the Top Ten! 1. No Escape (Atari 2600) 190 minutes 2. Pitfall (Atari 2600) 180 3. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) 93 4. Missile Command (Atari 2600) 50 5. Stay Frosty (Atari 2600) 40 5. Moon Patrol (Atari 2600) 40 7. Juno First (Atari 2600) 30 7. Millipede (Atari 8-bit) 30 7. Ms. Pac-man (Atari 2600) 30 10. Crystals of Zorg (Commodore 64) 28 At the end of this week I'll be posting the Top 10 for the week plus the Top 100 for the past year. It's not too late to help your favorite game rise in the rankings! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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